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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the Symposium/Workshop on New Methods for Phylogenomics and Metagenomics. It will be held on February 16 and 17, 2013, at the University of Texas at Austin.
The symposium (February 16) will feature talks on new methods for

– estimating very large multiple sequence alignments,

– estimating very large phylogenetic trees,

– estimating species trees and networks in the presence of gene tree incongruence due to horizontal gene transfer, gene duplication and loss, or incomplete lineage sorting,

– estimating or correcting estimated gene trees given species trees in the presence of gene duplication and loss scenarios, and

– metagenomic analysis, including estimating phylogenies and multiple sequence alignments from fragmentary sequences and taxon identification of fragmentary sequences.
The current list of speakers at the symposium includes:

– TreeFix and TreeFix-DTL, software by Mukul Bansal and Manolis Kellis (MIT) for “correcting” gene trees given a species tree, taking gene duplication and loss into account, taught by Mukul Bansal, and

– MetaPhlAn, software for analysis of metagenomic shotgun sequencing data, taught by Eric Franzosa (Harvard).
Registration is required, but participation in both the symposium and workshop is free. Travel awards for up to 50 workshop participants are available; please send an inquiry to Laurie Alvarez (lauriea@austin.utexas.edu) by November 15, 2012, if you would like to apply for an award.
For the most updated information, please check:Â http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/tandy/utexas-feb16-17.html
Tandy Warnow, The University of Texas at Austin